"You're the cover of my magazine,
You're my fashion tip, a living museum,
I'd pay to visit you on rainy Sundays,
And maybe tell you all about it, someday."



'Funny Little Frog', God Help The Girl / Belle & Sebastian


'Someday' has arrived...Open daily, admission free*

*(even on rainy Sundays)

Sunday, 30 December 2012

True Faith

"My adult self is still swooning at the touching moments a week ago when, during 'Blue Monday', Bernard went over and played Gillian's (AKA the coolest unsung woman in music history - surely 'The Perfect Kiss' video proves this) keyboards with her. And when Bernard dedicated 'Waiting For The Sirens Call' to his son James. Hearing 'Love Vigilantes' and 'Age of Consent' at all. And when 'Temptation' was utterly transcendent and I remembered why, looking at the people on stage who have survived to be still up on stage, in the words of 'Here To Stay': "The hope I held inside/With you was kept alive" It was that kind of gig for me and New Order are that kind of band..."

Excerpt from my Guardian Online comment about New Order's Manchester Apollo gig in April. "I used to think that the day would never come..." But it did....



Manchester Apollo - the morning after...

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Reason For Living


Somerset House - 11 December 2012


Somerset House - 'Tim Walker: Storyteller' Exhibition
11 December 2012


Waterloo Sunset - 11 December 2012